school reunions..would you attend one, would you lie?

I was thinking about this the other day, since i am going to head back to where i grew up, and do some running around there, since it has great hills, and some nice walkways along the roads. It would take me past my old school, and i wondered what it would be like to go to a school reunion?

I wouldnt lie, since i have done quite a lot in the 22 years since i left. Done travels, Uni, got a shitty paid, rewarding job, and a son i absolutely adore. Plus i am doing running, and doing okay with it. This, a guy who was always near last at cross country, and flaked out at 200m of the 800m.

If any of the kids who are now adults who gave me shit, gave me shit again, they would discover i fight back now. But things aside, you wonder how much people do change? Would you truly believe them.

This is something I was thinking about when I go back to my parents. I'd be hit and miss. If i was there anyway - i'd probably go but i'd not go out of my way for it. I'm not like any of the people I went to school with so there's not a lot of 'comradery' or 'what have you been doing'... they'd look upon what i'm doing as ultimately very strange and kinda weird. I live abroad by choice, speak 2 other different languages and didnt get pregnant at 16.

I've never been to a school reunion but I do still have contact with a few old buddies from way back and it is interesting to see how differently we have all turned out considering we were probably all cloned schoolkids at the time. I probably would go to one although I live miles from "home" now so don't hear too much about them. Not sure why I would want to lie, very happy with who I am and what I have done.

Why woud I want to do that?. I left school a long long time ago, have lost contact with everyone so why bother now? I was the only "sporty" girl in my class and hence not really close to anyone in school, my good friends were runners like me and didn't go to my school. I wasn't particularly happy there so can't see why I would want to go back, anyway the school that was doesn't exist any more, I believe it's now some sort of college. I did have communication with a couple of other ex-pupils through "friends reunited" website but it didn't lead to anything, there was a vague sort of mention of meeting up sometime but that was as far as it went. Quite honestly I can't believe we would have anything in common at all, we didn't really back then, so I doubt if that's changed much. My friends are here around where we live now.

I went to a 30 year re-union the other day and loved it.... it was my group of mates who attended and, notwithstanding that we all moved away from (boarding) school and each other, we still clicked as mates when we met up again as old farts. There was none of the bragging that I was worried about... it was just a brilliant day remembering stuff/events/people and then bringing each other up to date and vowing to meet again in another 30 years Good piss up too......

I have been to 2 school reunions. I thought they were interesting. I met up with a lot of people from the small village that I grew up in - very close knit community, so it was interesting to talk to them. People that I knew but wasn't really friends with.

I did meet up with a couple of 'best friends' who I had lost contact with so it was really nice to see that they were doing well. I also met some people who I used to hang out with so it was all chat about what car or bike they had - they were several years older than me so were 'adults' as I was passing through school but we still had friends in common from out side interests.

Unlike Tom, I'm interested in how my old school friends are getting on.

I also didn't feel like I was in a hall full of strangers, they were both very sociable events.

I know what most of the people I went to school with are doing now, thanks to the joys of Facebook! Next year will be 10 years since I left school and I wouldn't go! I'm still mates with who I wanted to keep in touch with

I went to reunion from Junior school over 30 years after I left. Over 20 of us pitched up and we had an absolute ball.It was nothing to do with points scoring simply remembering times gone by and a couple of absent friends.

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